Conference programme

 (Last update: April 5, 2005)

 

March 14th, 2005 (Monday)

 8:00  – 18:00         Reception desk

 9:00    9:10          Opening

 9:10  – 10:50         Session 1: Traffic Measurements and Modelling

10:50 – 11:15          Refreshment break

11:15 – 13:00          Session 2: Measurement Methods

13:00 – 14:30          Lunch

14:30 – 16:15          Session 3: Simulations and Measurements in the IST-EuQoS Project

16:15 – 16:45          Refreshment break

16:45 – 18:30          Session 4: Monitoring and Measurement Tools and Systems

20:00                     Dinner

 

March 15th, 2005 (Tuesday)

  8:00 – 18:00         Reception desk

  9:00 – 10:45         Session 5: Performance Evaluation

10:45 – 11:15          Refreshment break

11:15 – 13:00          Session 6: QoS Architectures and Mechanisms

13:00 – 14:30          Lunch

14:30 – 16:15          Session 7: Traffic Engineering

16:15 – 16:45          Refreshment break

16:45 – 18:00          Session 8: Simulation Tools

18:00 – 18.15          Closing


 

March 14th, 2005 (Monday)

 

Session 1: Traffic Measurements and Modelling

Keynote: Complex System Approach to Internet Measurements: The EVERGROW Measurement and Virtual Observatory Programs

Gábor Vattay, Eötvös University, Hungary

1.1.         Exploiting Clustering Techniques for Web User-session Inference

A. Bianco, G. Mardente, M. Mellia, M. Munafo, L. Muscariello, Politechnico di Torino, Italy

1.2.         On the need of specific IPv6 routing repositories

P. Aranda Gutierrez, Telefonica I+D, Spain

1.3.         MOME: An advanced measurement meta-repository

P. Aranda Gutierrez, Telefonica I+D, Spain

A. Bulanza, University of Brussels, Belgium

M. Dabrowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

B. Kaskina, TERENA, The Netherlands

J. Quittek, NEC, Germany

C. Schmoll, FOKUS, Germany

F. Strohmeier, Salzburg Research, Austria

A. Vidacs, K. Zsolt, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary

 

Session 2: Measurement Methods

2.1. PathSensor: Towards Efficient Available Bandwidth Measurement

P. Haga, I. Csabai, Eötvös University and Collegium Budapest, Hungary

A. Pasztor, Ericsson Research, Hungary

D. Veitch, University of Melbourne, Australia

2.2. Feedback Verification for Trustworthy Tomography

V. Arya, T. Turletti, C. Hoffmann, INRIA, France

2.3. A Flexible Tomography Approach for Queueing Delay Distribution Inference in Communication Networks

G. Simon, P. Haga, G. Vattay, I. Csabai, Collegium Budapest, Hungary

2.4. Towards Anomaly Detection in Network Traffic by Statistical Means and Machine Learning

R. Kwitt, T. Strohmeier, Salzburg Research, Austria

 

Session 3: Simulations and Measurements in the IST-EuQoS Project

3.1. Simulation Model for End-to-end QoS across Heterogeneous Networks

G. Stea and C. Cicconetti, University of Pisa

G. Garcia de Blas, Telefónica I+D, Spain

X. Masip, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain

J. Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal

G. Santoro, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

H. Tarasiuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

3.2. Ethernet QoS Modeling in Emerging Scenarios

M. Carmo, J. Sá Silva, E. Monteiro, P. Simões and F. Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal

3.3. A Software Architecture for Simulating IEEE 802.11e HCCA

C. Cicconetti, L. Lenzini, E. Mingozzi and G. Stea, University of Pisa, Italy

3.4. Active measurement tool for the EuQoS project

R. Serral-Gracia, A. Cabellos-Aparicio, H. Julian-Bertomeu, J. Domingo-Pascual, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain

 

Session 4: Monitoring and Measurement Tools and Systems

4.1. A Network Monitoring System with a Peer-to-Peer Architecture

P. Salvador, R. Valadas, University of Aveiro / Institute of Telecommunications Aveiro, Portugal

4.2. A distributed multi-purpose IP flow monitor

C. Mazzariello, F. Oliviero, Universita degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

S. D'Antonio, D. Salvi, CINI, Italy

4.3. RTLG -RSVP enabled Traffic Load Generator for Intra-Domain and Inter-Domain QoS Signalling Tests

R. Chaparadza, Y. Glickman and P. H. Deussen, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany

4.4. Reference Measurement Points for validation of end-to-end QoS in heterogeneous multiple domain network

A. Bęben, W. Burakowski and M. Dąbrowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

 


March 15th, 2005 (Tuesday)

 

Session 5: Performance Evaluation

Keynote: Queues with vacations and their applications

D. Fiems, H. Bruneel, Ghent University, Belgium

5.1. Performance Evaluation of Telecommunications Systems Specified with Formal Description Techniques

M. J. Csorba, S. Palugyai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

5.2. The Impact of RTT and Delayed ACK Timeout Ratio on the Initial Slow Start Phase

R. Dunaytsev, Y. Koucheryavy, J. Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

5.3. Closed Form Approximations of the TCP Throughput and Packet Loss Probability in Multi-Service Communication Networks: Analysis and Performance Evaluation

I. Bisio, M. Marchese, CNIT, Italy

 

 

Session 6: QoS Architectures and Mechanisms

6.1. An Analytical Approach for the Two-Tier Resource Management Model

Y. Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany

6.2. MPLS-based QoS Interworking among Autonomous Systems

A.     Garibbo, Selenia Communications, Italy

M. Marchese, M. Mongelli, University of Genoa, Italy

6.3. A high-end Linux based Open Router for IP QoS networks: tuning and performance analysis with internal (profiling) and external measurement tools of the packet forwarding capabilities

R. Bolla, R. Bruschi, University of Genoa, Italy

6.4. Performance Measurements and Comparison of Modified TCP Control Algorithms over Rain-Faded Satellite Channels

F. Davoli, G. Spano, S. Vignola, S. Zappatore, CNIT, Italy

 

Session 7: Traffic Engineering

7.1. Estimating Successive Traffic Matrices in Backbone IP Networks: a Model Based on Underlying Trends of Variation

J. S. Bedo, M. Bouhtou and V. Martin, France Telecom R&D, France

7.2. Traffic Engineering for Hard Real Time Multicast Applications Using Genetic Algorithm

S. Zhang, L. Kreft, U. Killat, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

7.3. Comparative Study of Inter-Domain Traffic Optimization Algorithms

M. Pedro, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and University of Coimbra, Portugal

E. Monteiro and F. Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal

7.4. Towards Optimal Prepending for Incoming Traffic Engineering

G. Di Battista, M. Patrignani, M. Pizzonia, M. Rimondini, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy

 

Session 8: Simulation Tools

8.1. Burrito: A simulation tool for P2P networks

M.L. Garcia Osma, G. Garcia de Blas, F.J. Ramon Salguero, J. Andres Colas, J. Enriquez Gabeiras, Telefonica I+D, Spain

S. Perez Sanchez, R. Trueba Fernandez, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

8.2. Internet Topology Generation for Large Scale BGP Simulation

J.M. Fourneau, H. Yahiaoui, PRiSM, France

8.3. Overview of the RSVP-TE Network Simulator: Design and Implementation

D. Adami, C. Callegari, S. Giordano, F. Mustacchio, M. Pagano and F. Vitucci, University of Pisa, ITALY